Ivan Ilyich Mozzhukhin, usually billed using the French transliteration Ivan Mosjoukine, was a Russian silent film actor, writer and director.
Ivan Ilyich Mozzhukhin, usually billed using the French transliteration Ivan Mosjoukine, was a Russian silent film actor, writer and director.
Born in Kondol, in the Saratov Governorate of the Russian Empire (present-day Penza Oblast in Russia), Ivan Mozzhukhin was the youngest of four brothers. His mother Rachel Ivanovna Mozzhukhina (née Lastochkina) was the daughter of a Russian Orthodox priest, while his father Ilya Ivanovich Mozzhukhin came from peasants and served as an estate manager for the noble Obolensky family. While all three elder brothers finished seminary, Ivan was sent to the Penza gymnasium for boys and later studied law at the Moscow State University. In 1910, he left academic life to join a troupe of traveling actors from Kiev, with which he toured for a year, gaining experience and a reputation for dynamic stage presence. Upon returning to Moscow, he launched his screen career with the 1911 adaptation of Tolstoy's The Kreutzer Sonata. Mosjoukine's most lasting contribution to the theoretical concept of film as image is the legacy of his own face in recurring representation of illusory reactions seen in Lev Kuleshov's psychological montage experiment which demonstrated the Kuleshov Effect. In 1918, the first full year of the Russian Revolution, Kuleshov assembled his revolutionary illustration of the application of the principles of film editing out of footage from one of Mosjoukine's Tsarist-era films which had been left behind when he, along with his entire film production company, departed for the relative safety of Crimea in 1917.
At the end of 1919, Mosjoukine arrived in Paris and quickly established himself as one of the top stars of the French silent cinema, starring in one successful film after another. Handsome, tall, and possessing a powerful screen presence, he won a considerable following as a mysterious and exotic romantic figure.
Mosjoukine's film stardom was assured and during the 1920s, his face with the trademark hypnotic stare appeared on covers of film magazines all over Europe. He wrote the screenplays for most of his starring vehicles and directed two of them, L'Enfant du carnaval (Child of the Carnival), released on 29 August 1921 and Le Brasier ardent (The Blazing Inferno), released on 2 November 1923. The leading lady in both films was the then-"Madame Mosjoukine", Nathalie Lissenko. Brasier, in particular, was highly praised for its innovative and inventive concepts, but ultimately proved too surreal and bizarre to become financially successful. Ivan Mosjoukine died of tuberculosis in a Neuilly-sur-Seine clinic. All available sources give his age as 49 and year of birth as 1889. However, his gravestone at the Russian cemetery in the Parisian suburb of Sainte-Genevieve-des-Bois is inscribed with the year 1887.
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Filmography (Movies)
What Is Sex?
Character:Mr. Kuleshov
Release Date:29/06/2024
Ivan Mosjoukine, or the Carnival Child
Character:Self (archive footage)
Release Date:01/01/1998
Cinema in Russia
Character:Film footage
Release Date:27/08/1979
Nitchevo
Character:
Release Date:18/12/1936
L'enfant du carnaval
Character:
Release Date:26/04/1934
Casanova
Character:
Release Date:13/04/1934
The 1002nd Night
Character:Tahar
Release Date:19/05/1933
Sergeant X
Character:Jean Renault
Release Date:25/03/1932
The White Devil
Character:Hadschi Murat
Release Date:28/01/1930
Manolescu, the Prince of Swindlers
Character:Manolescu
Release Date:30/04/1929
The Adjutant of the Czar
Character:Prince Boris Kurbski
Release Date:12/02/1929
The Secret Courier
Character:Julien Sorel
Release Date:25/10/1928
The President
Character:Chico/Pepe Torre, ein Bauer
Release Date:20/03/1928
Loves of Casanova
Character:Casanova
Release Date:08/10/1927
Surrender
Character:Constantine
Release Date:02/01/1927
Michel Strogoff
Character:Michael Strogoff
Release Date:30/06/1926
The Late Mathias Pascal
Character:Mathias Pascal
Release Date:02/07/1925
The Lion of the Moguls
Character:le prince Roundghito-Sing
Release Date:12/12/1924
Les Ombres Qui Passent
Character:Louis Barclay
Release Date:20/07/1924
Kean
Character:Edmund Kean
Release Date:14/02/1924
The Burning Crucible
Character:Zed, le détective
Release Date:04/08/1923
Member Of Parliament
Character:Lord Chilcote / Loder, writer
Release Date:07/01/1923
The House of Mystery
Character:Julien Villandrit
Release Date:02/01/1923
Tempêtes
Character:Henri
Release Date:09/06/1922
The Child of the Carnival
Character:Marquis Octave de Granier
Release Date:29/07/1921
Justice d'abord
Character:
Release Date:02/01/1921
A Narrow Escape
Character:Octave de Granier
Release Date:19/11/1920
The Queen's Secret
Character:Paul, lord Verden's son
Release Date:05/11/1919
Kuleshov Effect
Character:
Release Date:01/01/1919
Father Sergius
Character:Prince Kasatsky, later Father Sergius
Release Date:14/05/1918
Knight's Spirit
Character:Vladek / Stas Marzinkovskiy
Release Date:25/03/1918
Little Ellie
Character:Norton, city's mayor
Release Date:19/01/1918
Satan Triumphant
Character:Pastor Talnoks / Pastor's son Sandro
Release Date:21/10/1917
Behind the Screen
Character:Ivan Mosjoukine
Release Date:28/07/1917
The Prosecutor
Character:Eric Olsen, prosecutor
Release Date:20/02/1917
Dance of Death
Character:Mark Galich, music composer
Release Date:03/01/1917
Beggar Woman
Character:Poet
Release Date:11/10/1916
Panna Meri
Character:
Release Date:04/10/1916
Sin
Character:Lavrov, engineer
Release Date:20/09/1916
And The Song Remained Unfinished
Character:Doctor Rakitin
Release Date:14/06/1916
The Dagger Woman
Character:Sakhovskiy, the painter
Release Date:31/05/1916
Life is a Moment, Art is Forever
Character:Prince Boleslav
Release Date:03/05/1916
The Queen of Spades
Character:Hermann
Release Date:19/04/1916
In The Wild Blindness Of Desires
Character:Nikolay
Release Date:19/01/1916
А счастье было так возможно
Character:
Release Date:01/01/1916
Me And My Conscience
Character:Gleb Znamenskiy
Release Date:06/10/1915
Nikolay Stavrogin
Character:Nikolay Stavrogin
Release Date:01/09/1915
Vanyushin's Children
Character:Aleksey
Release Date:07/04/1915
Idols
Character:Giu Kolman
Release Date:21/03/1915
Petersburg Slums
Character:
Release Date:02/01/1915
Mazepa
Character:Mazepa
Release Date:30/12/1914
The Tale of the Sleeping Princess and the Seven Knights
Character:Prince Elisei
Release Date:29/12/1914
Do You Remember?..
Character:Yaron
Release Date:25/12/1914
In the Hands of Merciless Fate
Character:Sergey Nevedov, doctor's son
Release Date:11/12/1914
Wicked Night
Character:Georges Vinogradov, a student
Release Date:18/11/1914
Mysterious Someone
Character:Writer
Release Date:09/11/1914
Chrysanthemums
Character:Vladimir
Release Date:03/11/1914
Glory to Us, Death to the Enemy
Character:Russian officer
Release Date:01/11/1914
Life in Death
Character:Dr. Renaud
Release Date:24/10/1914
Tomboy
Character:Anatoliy, painter
Release Date:18/10/1914
Her Heroic Feat
Character:Robert
Release Date:29/09/1914
Woman of Tomorrow
Character:Nikolay, Anna's husband
Release Date:27/04/1914
Khaz-Bulat
Character:Prince
Release Date:27/12/1913
The Night Before Christmas
Character:Devil
Release Date:26/12/1913
Brothers
Character:Aleksey
Release Date:19/11/1913
The Little House in Kolomna
Character:Hussar / Mavrusha
Release Date:09/10/1913
The Precipice
Character:Rayskiy
Release Date:17/09/1913
Sorrows of Sarah
Character:Isaak
Release Date:09/09/1913
Uncle's Apartment
Character:Koko
Release Date:07/05/1913
Accession of the Romanov Dynasty
Character:
Release Date:01/03/1913
A Terrible Revenge
Character:Petro the wizard
Release Date:01/01/1913
Alcoholism and Its Consequences
Character:Alcoholic
Release Date:01/01/1913
The Peasants' Lot
Character:Pyotr
Release Date:26/11/1912
The Man
Character:Boris, Barkov's son
Release Date:16/10/1912
The Spring's Stream
Character:Albov, the painter
Release Date:04/09/1912
The In-Law
Character:Ivan
Release Date:19/08/1912
Worker's Quarters
Character:Surguchyov, factory's clerk
Release Date:07/04/1912
Scary Corpse
Character:
Release Date:01/01/1912
The Robber Brothers
Character:Younger brother
Release Date:01/01/1912
Defence of Sevastopol
Character:Kornilov / associate of the envoy of the Menshkov retinue
Release Date:22/12/1911
In A Lively Place
Character:The coachman
Release Date:22/11/1911
The Kreutzer Sonata
Character:Trukhachevskiy
Release Date:02/01/1911
At Midnight in the Graveyard
Character:
Release Date:12/02/1910
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